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Emancipation Proclamation
freed slaves -
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Civil Rights
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13th Amendment
the United States Constitution abolished slavery. However, Southern states managed to revive slavery era codes -
14th Amendment
granted due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy jailed for sitting in a white car -
Plessy v. Ferguson
upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars. The ruling stated the equal protection -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
he U.S. Supreme Court's unanimously ruled that public school segregation was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation. -
Chicagoan Emmett Till was kidnapped
While visiting family in Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for the murder -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks a black female did not want to give up her sit to a white male -
MLK
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, comprised of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles K. Steele and Fred L. Shuttlesworth, was established. King was the organization's first president. -
24th Amendment abolished the poll tax,
which had originally been instituted in 11 southern states. The poll tax made it difficult for blacks to vote. -
civil rights act
